Smagorinsky wins national award for research in English Education
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Smagorinsky
Peter Smagorinsky, a Distinguished Research Professor of language and literacy education in the College of Education, has been named recipient of the 2013 David H. Russell Research Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
The award honors an outstanding work of scholarship or research in language, literature, rhetoric or learning, published during the past five years. Smagorinsky is being recognized for his book titled, Vygotsky and Literacy Research: A Methodological Framework. He will receive the award at the NCET annual convention Nov. 21-24 in Boston.
Smagorinsky was named the 2013 Outstanding Reviewer for Review of Education Research, the journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and Outstanding Reviewer for 2013 by the editors of the American Educational Research Journal - Teaching, Learning, and Human Development. He was named an AERA Fellow in 2010.